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Marks the period of the European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the Modern world. It represents a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries.
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Arrived by sea when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea.
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The printing press allowed manuscripts to be mass-produced at relatively affordable costs. its the most well known printed item
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Became the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrived at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. He sailed from Lisbon, Portugal on July 1497 and rounded the Cape of Good Hope and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa.
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Named after the Amerigo Vespucci since the early education. Vespucci was the navigator to travel to the "new World"
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Took place across the Atlantic from the 15th through the 19th centuries.
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Set sail from Spain in an effort to find a Western Sea Route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia. On there journey people on the ship suffered from starvation,scurvy, and harassment by the Portuguese ships.
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Created the painting in 1503 and finished it in 1504 in Florence Italy.Doubtless painting between 1503 and 1506. Martin Kemp says there are some difficulties on finding the actual dates
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Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel in 1508-1512. Is was a work of High Renaissance Art.
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Returned to Panama. Sailed to Peru and landed at the Tumbes. He led his army up the Andes Mountains and on November 15, 1532 reached the Inca town of Cajamarcra where Atahuallpa.
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Was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important councils. Prompted by the protestant Reformation and described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation
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The church of England broke with Rome, largely because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
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104 english men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. They picked Jamestown in Virginia to be there settlement. Named after King James I, the settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. Two months later he landed on an Island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador.
